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Memorial for Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Victims

Memorial for Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Victims

  • examples
  • embroidery
  • text

A finished banner framed in blue with names of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

The Tatter Textile Library organized a community project to stitch a banner memorializing the victims of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Each of the 146 victims had their own piece of the banner with their name, and sometimes biographical details.

This data visualization uses Civic Data (records of victims) and text, along with Machine Embroidery and Surface Embroidery.

An in-progress image of the banner with more names and a spreadsheet in the background


  • by Quinn Daedal
  • Textile Makerspace/YarnLab
  • #DHmakes feed